Ohio State 75, Florida 84 (final - NC Game)

[zincfinger]

Originally Posted by tbbuc99

Sit back and enjoy the ride because I'll tell you no matter the outcome it's been 44 years since the Buckeyes have even sniffed the title game.

Given that OSU has been in the Final Four multiple times in the last 44 years, I assume you define "sniffing" the title game only as actually being in it.

[jwinslow]

Your team is so tough to stop due to it's size. I think Lighty could handle Brewer pretty well, but he'd have to replace lewis, which is a big loss on offense. Against most teams, we can steal minutes at the 4 with less size (Lighty) or athleticism (Harris)... but that's pretty hard to do against your lineup.

Originally Posted by skatesuf

I think our other big men will be hard for your team to handle. Simply by numbers. If we have all three Noah, Hortford and Richard in, who will match up against all three? Noah is the smallest of the three as far as thickness goes. That is one thing I expect to see a lot of from Billy D. If those three and Brewer are in the game, height will give you guys a real problem. We would dominate inside and you would have to leave Brewer or Green (most likely) open outside the arc.

Terwilliger has stepped up his game as a 'minute stealer' but this is a whole different ballgame against your front court.

Perhaps Matta is seeing if Koufos can graduate early and use up a year of eligibility for the sake of a title

I know thats a lot of "What the Gators are great" but I wouldn't be able to talk intelligently about the Buckeyes, I just haven't watched them enough.

Nope, I think it was well thought out... and admitting your bias and shortcomings lends itself to good debate.

[skatesuf]

Originally Posted by jwinslow

And nothing that bad was said about Florida by Herbie, he merely preferred UM slightly over UF, yet he was villified as the devil by far too many.

Both sides did/are blowing it out of proportion somewhat. For Florida is started that we did not deserve to be there, then it changed to we just did not have a chance (as no one from the SEC would against a powerhouse from the Big Ten). You guys are being told that you do not have a chance. The difference here is the time span. You are hearing it for a day. UF heard it for a month. Hearing something hour after hour makes it worse than hearing it once (hench the blowing it out of proportion). Hearing it hour after hour, day after day makes it so you can not not focus on it. You have to focus on it and turn it to your advantage. Thats what Meyer did. Maybe Matta will too, I hope not.

I still find it comical that Noah went on a rant about all the haters, when 99% of the season, everyone has had UF pegged as the eventual champs...

I think thats more haters of Noah than UF. Face it, no one likes that boy (except UF). Look at the thread thats on every school's boards. You guys have it here with his head on a ballerina and as the "Lord of the Dance," dancing with Emit Smith from Dancing with the Stars, etc. I saw it on Tenn's and UCLA's and everyone else's. Noah hates everyone for hating him. If you read any articles (I can't find links right now) that are written in Gainesville and interviewed Noah, they talk about how this tournement has been harder for him because he is the focus of a lot of hatred. I know, he needs to suck it up. He uses that as motivation, but you can tell off the court it is getting to him (yes I know, he needs to suck it up again, he brings it upon himself). There very well could be many things out there where he was talking about the team being disrespected, but most of what I've read its a personal thing.

[sandgk]

Originally Posted by skatesuf

To read this board you would think ESPN (who LOVES the Big Ten and refuses to give any SEC team not a defending champion any credit, like us all season long in football) was calling for your program to be shut down.

Had to pick this up skatesuf, because you were trying to be ironic. Truth is if you literally took the second half of that sentence "ESPN ... was calling for your program to be shut down" and imposed it in the period 2003 - 2006 you would have been reflecting reality. ESPN had a hard on for ruining the OSU Football Program that would require help from a nurse if induced by Viagra. All based on largely uncorroborated statements and one Friend(less) journalist's article.
Bottom line, if your athletics program is at or near the top ESPN is not your friend - regardless of your conference affiliation. They are in the Extremely Sensational Noise & Pornography business - and right now Florida gets the bullseye.

Originally Posted by skatesuf

It sounds like something that would happen on Swamp Gas where Gator Alum get banned for saying Chris Leak had a bad game.

Have to laugh at this, Swamp Gas is without doubt one of the funniest boards, though not in a good way, if you know what I mean.

Where do the really witty or bright or knowledgeable Gator Fans post BTW? It would have been great to cultivate some useful debate last year (and who knows how many times in the future).

[Pheasant]

Originally Posted by Jagdaddy

Well, we're up to post # 173 on this thread, so I suppose somebody should try to actually analyze this game.
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Why would you want to do that?

[skatesuf]

Originally Posted by sandgk

Have to laugh at this, Swamp Gas is without doubt one of the funniest boards, though not in a good way, if you know what I mean.

Where do the really witty or bright or knowledgeable Gator Fans post BTW? It would have been great to cultivate some useful debate last year (and who knows how many times in the future).

I think I was banned quicker than anyone else in the history of Swamp Gas. I made one post and immediately had my account deleted. One of the mods over there wrote something saying talking about how great Chris Leak played and how awesome he is and how he should be the number one overall pick in the draft. This was right after a game where he threw like 6 INT's and just basicly sucked donkey balls (don't get me wrong, I'm a Chris Leak fan, but if he's playing like sh!t I'd be the first to say that). There was a huge thread about how I'm not a Gator, I'm a troll and no "true Gator" would say something like that about their QB, blah blah blah.

This time of the year, there aren't any boards that are very active. As much as UF is trying to convince the media and Billy D we are both a football and a basketball school, we're a football school. Most of the better boards are the much smaller ones (which sucks bc theres not too much discussion going on).

[bigtenbadboy]

Say what you want about Joakim Noah, but that young lady gives it her all every time she's on the court.

[cwise]

Hey Buckeyes!

Cwise back again to say congrats on the FF win and good luck tommorrow night.

I would have done this sooner, but I've been spending much time on the KY and Arky boards telling everyone why my coach isn't leaving.

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